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Rosencrantz Quotes
Seven of the best book quotes from Rosencrantz
#1
“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death?”
author
Tom Stoppard
book
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
character
Rosencrantz
concepts
death
first to know
finding about death
intuition of mortality
#2
“It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality.”
author
Tom Stoppard
book
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
character
Rosencrantz
concepts
intuition of mortality
death
Mortality
Intuition
#3
“Be happy -- if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?”
author
Tom Stoppard
book
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
character
Rosencrantz
concepts
happiness
living
being happy
choosing to be happy
happiness in life
#4
“Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You’d have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I’m not dead.”
author
Tom Stoppard
book
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
character
Rosencrantz
concepts
Perspective
life
death
having chances
#5
“There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever.”
author
Tom Stoppard
book
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
character
Rosencrantz
concepts
realizing impending death
death
impending death
living forever
#6
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?”
author
Tom Stoppard
book
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
character
Rosencrantz
concepts
Eternity
end of eternity
terrible thoughts
thinking of eternity
eternity ending
#7
“Before we know the word for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling...with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there’s only one direction and time is its only measure.”
author
Tom Stoppard
book
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
character
Rosencrantz
concepts
birth
time
compass
direction
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